Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchTea Krulos, "American Madness: The Story of the Phantom Patriot and How Conspiracy Theories Hijacked American Consciousness" (Feral House, 2020)
Episode 265
The mainstream news media struggles to understand the power of social media. In contrast, conspiracy advocates, malicious political movements, and ev…
1 year, 9 months ago
Monika Krause, "Model Cases: On Canonical Research Objects and Sites" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
Episode 371
In Model Cases: On Canonical Research Objects and Sites (University of Chicago Press, 2021), Dr. Monika Krause asks about the concrete material resea…
1 year, 9 months ago
Aram Sinnreich and Jesse Gilbert, "The Secret Life of Data: Navigating Hype and Uncertainty in the Age of Algorithmic Surveillance" (MIT Press, 2024)
Episode 368
What is data, and why does it matter for us to care about the data traces we leave behind? What are the implications for our lives of how this data i…
1 year, 9 months ago
Shannon Vallor, "The AI Mirror: How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Episode 346
There's a lot of talk these days about the existential risk that artificial intelligence poses to humanity -- that somehow the AIs will rise up and d…
1 year, 9 months ago
David Alff, "The Northeast Corridor: The Trains, the People, the History, the Region" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Episode 264
Traversed by thousands of trains and millions of riders, the Northeast Corridor might be America’s most famous railway, but its influence goes far be…
1 year, 9 months ago
David J. Hand, "Dark Data: Why What You Don't Know Matters" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Episode 52
There is no shortage of books on the growing impact of data collection and analysis on our societies, our cultures, and our everyday lives. David Han…
1 year, 9 months ago
Donna Drucker, "Contraception: A Concise History" (The MIT Press, 2020)
Episode 82
The beginning of the modern contraceptive era began in 1882, when Dr. Aletta Jacobs opened the first birth control clinic in Amsterdam. The founding …
1 year, 9 months ago
Sandra Hirsh, "Library 2035: Imagining the Next Generation of Libraries" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024)
Episode 60
Building on the success and impact of Library 2020: Today’s Leading Visionaries Describe Tomorrow’s Library by Joseph Janes, Library 2035: Imagining …
1 year, 9 months ago
Jeremy Black, "A World History of Rail: From the Steam Regime to Today" (Amberley Publishing, 2023)
Episode 1452
There were 20,000 miles of railways in 1865 and about a million by 2020. Scale has always been a key theme in railway history. In the First World War…
1 year, 9 months ago
Tara Ward, "Appreciation Post: Towards an Art History of Instagram" (U California Press, 2024)
Episode 157
What does an art history of Instagram look like? Appreciation Post: Towards an Art History of Instagram (University of California Press, 2024) by Dr.…
1 year, 9 months ago